“They should vote for me in the primary”, said Ted Cruz, (R) Presidential Candidate.
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Republican Donald Trump signaled a shift toward “more meat on the bone” in his policy speeches Wednesday amid new signs of campaign discord, a day after his stinging Wisconsin defeat emboldened his critics and pushed the GOP closer to its first contested national convention in four decades.
Yet support for Trump varies widely across the state, suggesting Ted Cruz – and perhaps John Kasich – could dilute a strong overall showing by the GOP front-runner and divide the state’s massive delegate haul.
Another 12 at-large delegates will be elected by the Massachusetts Republican State Committee on May 25.
Most of these delegates are selected at state and congressional district conventions, where Cruz and his supporters have done a good job rounding up supporters. Should Trump, Cruz or Kasich nab the nomination, about a third of the electorate reported they would be “dissatisfied or upset” in each case.
“Doing what Ted did yesterday in Wisconsin, Donald doing that in NY when there’s twice as many delegates I think would go towards establishing that, absolutely”, Brown said of Trump achieving the Republican nomination. Cruz-backed slates have already swept several congressional-district votes, and by all accounts he’ll win the rest. But today, Cruz is the only candidate in the race who can secure the Republican nomination, run as a conservative who will honor the Constitution, and win the general election.
Their one hope is that Trump fails to collect the 1,237 delegates needed to win outright, prompting a floor fight after a first ballot.
All three of the republican presidential candidates still in the race were invited to the event here tomorrow.
But he told about 100 people at the annual “signature” fundraising dinner for Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, that Trump had laid bare what some in the Republican party had been saying for years. In Wyoming, where Cruz claimed nine of the 12 delegates in last month’s county conventions, the Texas senator could pick up the majority of the additional 14 elected at the state convention next weekend.
At the same time, Clinton allies were broadening their attacks against Trump to include Cruz, a first-term senator who has often alienated Democrats and Republican alike in Washington.
“If nobody gets the magic 1237, and the the way its looking that seems probable, then the delegates at the national convention in the 2nd ballot-delegates can vote their conscience on the second ballot. But in the end result I think all of us would like to support the nominee and do the best we can”.
“The Trump University litigation that he defrauded thousands of people with a fake university, took their money, scammed them, that’s scheduled to go to trial this summer”, Cruz said.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in De Pere, Wisconsin, United States, March 30, 2016. Such a scenario could inflame all those voters who made their preferences known during the nominating season. But Trump backers say Trump’s victory may not have completely settled it.
“We’re still kicking the tires”, Daines said. “I am just once again blown away by the efforts to support Mr. Trump”, Goertz said.
In one of his biggest debate moments of the campaign, Trump fired back, calling NY a “great place” with “loving people, wonderful people”. Trump has said Lewandowski is innocent of the charge. “If these regional differences persist, the delegate allocations will be more divided (among candidates)”.
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Also as part of the expectations game, Cruz and aides are downplaying their own prospects in NY.
